Introduction.

If you are choosing to read this post, you've probably seen the image below depicting all the notifications students received on their phones during one class period. You probably saw it as a retweet of this tweet, or in one of Zvi's posts. Did you find this data plausible, or did you roll to disbelieve? Did you know that the image dates back to at least 2019? Does that fact make you more or less worried about the truth on the ground as of 2024?

Last month, I performed an enhanced replication of this experiment in my high school classes. This was partly because we had a use for it, partly to model scientific thinking, and partly because I was just really curious. Before you scroll past the image, I want to give you a chance to mentally register your predictions. Did my average class match the [...]

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Outline:

(01:41) Procedure

(02:59) Results

(07:22) Insights from talking to individual students

(10:28) Discussion

(13:05) Conclusion

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First published:
May 26th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AZCpu3BrCFWuAENEd/notifications-received-in-30-minutes-of-class

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Notifications Received in 30 Minutes of Class” by tanagrabeast

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